10 Women Who Would Have Ruled the Blogosphere
Centuries before Al Gore “invented the Internet” and we began blogging in droves, women were recording the details of their lives in journals, letters, memoirs and newspaper columns. From complaining...
View Article100 Years After Marie Curie Set Nobel Record, Why So Few Women in Science?
Marie Skłodowska-Curie, two-time Nobel Laureate, challenged scientific theories and generally accepted beliefs about women’s abilities, blazing a trail for generations of women scientists and...
View ArticleA Starting Line-Up of Women’s Basketball Trailblazers
When the 30th annual installment of the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Championship tips off Saturday, fans will be glued to the screen, wondering if anyone can stop undefeated Baylor and player of...
View ArticleSex, Drugs and Self-Absorption in Amy Sohn’s “Motherland”
In Motherland, Amy Sohn offers a satirical, cynical look at life among the latte-sipping, Bugaboo-pushing parents of Brooklyn’s Park Slope. The novel, Sohn’s fourth, gets its title from the name one...
View ArticleHappy 100th Birthday to the Revolutionary Rosa Parks
It’s a story we’ve all been told: Small, quiet Rosa Parks refused to follow an Alabama bus driver’s order to give up her seat to a white passenger. Her subsequent arrest sparked the 1955-56 Montgomery...
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